2020 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2020.
Events
New books
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Fiction
- Hilary Mantel – The Mirror and the Light (March 5 (projected), UK)
Children and young people
Poetry
Drama
Non-fiction
Biography and memoirs
Deaths
- January 7 – Elizabeth Wurtzel, 52, American author (Prozac Nation) (born 1967)[1]
- January 9 – Chukwuemeka Ike, 88, Nigerian writer (born 1931)
- January 16 – Christopher Tolkien, 95, British academic and editor (born 1924)[2]
- January 17 – Charles Carrère, 91, Senegalese poet.[3]
- January 23 – Armando Uribe, 86, Chilean writer (winner of the National Prize for Literature 2004) (born 1933)[4]
- January 30 – Jörn Donner, 86, Finland-Swedish writer, film director and politician (born 1933).[5]
- January 31 – Mary Higgins Clark, 92, American best-selling author, known as the Queen of Suspense (born 1927)[6]
- February 3 – George Steiner, 90, French-American literary critic and essayist (After Babel) (born 1929)[7]
- February 4 – Kamau Brathwaite, 89, Barbadian poet and academic (born 1930)[8]
- February 17 – Charles Portis, 86, American author (True Grit, Norwood, Gringos) (born 1933)[9]
- February 22 – Kiki Dimoula, 88, Greek poet (born 1931)[10]
- February 24 – Clive Cussler, 88, American adventure novelist (Raise the Titanic!, Sahara) and underwater explorer, founder of the NUMA (born 1931)[11]
Awards
The following list is arranged alphabetically:
- Akutagawa Prize:
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award:
- Baillie Gifford Prize:
- Booker Prize:
- Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year:
- Caine Prize for African Writing:
- Camões Prize:
- Carnegie Medal:
- Costa Book Awards:
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award:
- David Cohen Prize:
- Desmond Elliott Prize:
- Folio Prize:
- German Book Prize:
- Goldsmiths Prize:
- Gordon Burn Prize:
- Governor General's Award for English-language fiction:
- Governor General's Award for French-language fiction:
- Governor General's Awards, other categories: See 2020 Governor General's Awards
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française:
- Hugo Award for Best Novel:
- International Booker Prize:
- International Dublin Literary Award:
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction:
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction:
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography:
- Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award:
- Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 31st Lambda Literary Awards.
- Legion of Honour, Chevalier:
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize:
- Miles Franklin Award:
- National Biography Award:
- National Book Award for Fiction:
- National Book Critics Circle Award:
- Newbery Medal: Jerry Craft, New Kid
- Nike Award:
- Nobel Prize in Literature:
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
- PEN Center USA 2018 Fiction Award:
- Premio Planeta de Novela:
- Premio Strega:
- Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing:
- Prix Goncourt:
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
- Queen's Birthday Honours (UK)
- RBC Taylor Prize:
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize:
- Russian Booker Prize:
- SAARC Literary Award:
- Scotiabank Giller Prize:
- Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings:
- Walter Scott Prize:
- Whiting Awards:
- Fiction:
- Nonfiction:
- Plays:
- Poetry:
- Women's Prize for Fiction:
- W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction:
- Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award:
See also
References
- ^ Elizabeth Wurtzel, ‘Prozac Nation’ author who spurred a memoir boom, dies at 52
- ^ Garth, John (20 January 2020). "Christopher Tolkien obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- ^ Le poète Charles Carrère n'est plus (in French)
- ^ https://radio.uchile.cl/2020/01/23/fallece-el-escritor-armando-uribe-a-los-86-anos-de-edad/
- ^ Författaren och regissören Jörn Donner har dött – blev 86 år, read 29 February 2020.
- ^ Cohen, Noah (1 February 2020). "Mary Higgins Clark, bestselling mystery author who called N.J. home, dies at 92". nj.com. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90
- ^ Noted Barbadian poet and historian Brathwaite dies
- ^ 'True Grit' Novelist Charles Portis Dies at 86
- ^ https://www.thenationalherald.com/287625/prominent-greek-poet-kiki-dimoula-died/
- ^ https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51644229